The Top 10 Tips for Linux Users is a pretty useful set of tips that might make your life as a shell user a bit easier. I already knew six of them, but the other four look pretty helpful. Tip #4 is particularly useful, once you master it.

The MP3 on Linux HowTo is useful for those of us who fancy running Linux as our desktop operating system. I’ve been keeping a journal of my adventures with Linux at home, but it’s not quite ready to be published.

Salon has a brief retrospective on the life of Rich Stevens the writer of seminal Unix guru tomes “Unix Network Programming” and “Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment” who died on this day last year. For some reason, I completely missed that he had passed away.